The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
Cinema was my rite of passage.
As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.
Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.
By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.
A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.